Japanese popular culture

In this article, written by Lucie Thibault, vigorously focuses on the importance of how globalization directly impacts the sport industry. For instance, factors such as, political, economic, social, and cultural spheres, have all played a pivotal role in the increasing movement toward globalization involved with sport. As mentioned in the article, we see that the World Cup, and the Olympics offer a platform towards all nations; therefore, has no equal match for other small nations as they later…

To study popular culture is to challenge the assumption that high culture carries worth, and low culture is the binary opposite therefore lacking in value. Popular culture, is the everyday ordinariness of life (Williams 1958: 93) and saturates everyday life. Popular culture is so widespread that its presence cannot be ignored within an academic study of humanities. The dilemmas surrounding popular culture originate from definition: in defining it with recognition to its historical subjugation to…

PAPER 1 TITLE – ‘INTERVENTION OF POP CULTURE IN INDIAN CULTURE’ INTRODUCTION This paper mainly deals with westernisation or the spread of a particular culture or among the individuals in the society. Pop culture is nothing but what you listen to, what you read , what you wear and how you speak. Some examples are gangnam style, whatsapp , Facebook , selfie and so on. Indian culture is very different from other foreign cultures. It is rich with its own values and traditions. But nowadays more of…

globe can freely share ideas and cultures, also known as pop culture. Pop culture, as defined by Oxford dictionary, is the popular culture shown through media and aimed at younger people such as teens. Pop culture became popular with the introduction of the internet because people can share many of their ideas. A popular example of pop culture are images that are known are memes. Alexandre Philippe believes that pop culture can bring people of different cultures together and he talks about it in…

According to The Library of Congress, “pop culture is cultural aspects of social life distinguished by their broad-based presence across ethnic, social, and regional groupings.” Mass Media, along with the different styles, languages and transportation, can be defined as pop culture. The idea of pop culture has been very familiar with every generation since the 1960s. Pop culture made a big impact on everyday life for all children and even adults. Pop culture was common in the 1970s, specifically…

similarities; however, both meet at the same intersection –space. As written by Joseph Palis (2008) in his dissertation Cinema Archipelago: A Geography of Philippine Film and the Postnational Imaginary, he pointed out the cinematic representation of local cultures,…

Cultural Appropriation Society today, has adopted a plethora of different concepts from different cultures, but with this evolution in civilization there has been some negative connotations. That is where cultural appropriation comes in because some people are abusing one another’s beliefs. Culture is arts, achievements, customs, and social institutions of a particular group of people or nation. Culture is also the behavior and attitudes of a social group. Cultural exchange is when two or more…

A low-context culture is a society “in which the media that are produced and consumed are generally straightforward,” while a high-context culture is a society in which “both the producers and the consumers (the audience) of a media content the actual words, images and stories heavily depend on a shared understanding of the context within which that media content is presented.” (Sterin, 2014) Using these definitions, cyberbullying can reasonably be considered high culture. Cyberbullying does…

and more as urbanization was overtaking society. The result of each reinvention continued to the present day and is even more so present. Christmas is even more so emphasized on materialism than ever before, as for opera, I never hear about it on popular media, and still has its own…

When I describe something as popular, I am describing something that appeals to and is liked by a large audience. A greatly example of this is a popular song; the song is constantly being played on the radio, many people request to have that song played, and the sales of the song are high. To be popular, the entity must be known and it must be liked by a large audience. In terms of live theatre, the measurements we can apply to gauge “popularity” encompass different mediums. As stated in the…